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Rigel (β Ori, β Orionis, Beta Orionis) is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the sixth brightest star in the sky, with visual magnitude 0.18. Although it has the Bayer designation "beta", it is almost always brighter than Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse). Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified.
Spectroscopic estimates of Rigel's distance place its distance between 700 and 900 light-years (210 and 280 pc), while Hipparcos's measurement of its parallax gives a distance of 860 light-years (260 pc), with a margin of error of about 9%. It is a blue supergiant, at about 18 solar masses, shining with approximately 117,000 times the luminosity of the Sun. The interferometer-measured angular diameter of this star, after correction for limb darkening, is 2.75 ± 0.01 mas. At its estimated distance, this yields a physical size of about 74 times the radius of the Sun.
Rigel is the most luminous star in our local region of the Milky Way; the nearest more powerful star is Naos, almost 1,100 light years away in Puppis. If viewed from a distance of 1 astronomical unit, it would span an angular diameter of 35° and shine at magnitude −38. The power flux is 100 MW / m2 or 10 kW / cm2, compared to the Sun's flux of 1.4 kW / m2. The power flux at this distance is the same as the flux a few millimeters from a welding arc; any object this close would be vaporized and blown away by the strong stellar wind.[original research?]
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